Moiraine POV#
As Moiraine returns to the common room,
Siuan peers in the door to the street, sees her, then ducks away. She is wearing one of
Tamore's dresses. It will be three or four years before
Siuan is strong enough tell
Cetalia she wants to quit, so
Moiraine knows something is wrong. She wonders if
Sierin learned of their plot and forced
Siuan to bring her back.
Moiraine follows her into a narrow alley.
Siuan tells
Moiraine that all five of the searchers,
Aisha,
Kerene,
Valera,
Ludice and
Meilyn, are dead.
Aisha and her
Warder were killed by bandits in
Murandy.
Kerene fell off a ship in the
Alguenya River.
Meilyn returned to the
White Tower after the other four died.
Siuan wanted to speak to her in secret so she hid under her bed.
Meilyn never showed, but at breakfast next morning
Chesmal announced that she died in her sleep. She now wonders if
Tamra might have been murdered, too. The only reasonable conclusion is the
Black Ajah.
Siuan left an anonymous note about the
Black Ajah for
Sierin. They wonder if
Cadsuane might be another searcher or if she might be
Black Ajah.
Moiraine convinces
Siuan to head on to
Chachin; she will follow after
Cadsuane's bed check. At the inn,
Moiraine sees
Ryne leaving and an edge of shawl from a sister he is talking to. In the common room
Merean,
Larelle and
Cadsuane are wearing their shawls. With three more
Aes Sedai arrived, Master
Helvin informs
Moiraine that she must share a room with a
Murandian rug merchant
Haesel Palan. With her worries she cannot sleep. When
Cadsuane checks on her, she opens herself to
saidar causing
Cadsuane to mutter about the fool girl.
Moiraine gets up and reluctantly leaves most of her possessions behind. She wears a riding dress with embroidery like
Maldine lace as she leaves her room.
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Notes (Possible Spoilers)#
It seems that this should put Chesmal at the top of the list as a suspect Black Ajah, but for some reason Siuan never followed up on it.
Apparently Sierin follows up on this, but Chesmal induces the Red Ajah to murder her before she can act on her investigation. (WH,Ch10)
Based on later events it was probably Merean.
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